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and had all my fingers under it, that it flew off. I now saw that 

 there were two young and an egg. The young might be two days 

 old, with their eyes still closed. They raised their mouths straight 

 up to be fed. The nest was not neat, with few feathers in it. The 

 old bird called several times, as my tame Kuukainens did, and soon 

 came on the nest again. The other did not shew. The egg I found 

 to be addled. 



On the 15th I found an old nest on Laita-vaara in a very young 

 spruce, some ten feet from the ground, to which a squirrel had made 

 additions of luppu. It was, as usual, of numerous light grey sticks, 

 among which were interspersed a good many spiders' webs, collected 

 by the bird, and was lined with lighter-coloured tree-lichen, and 

 various feathers, coloured as well as white. We could not find a new 

 nest, though we watched some birds a long while. 



[The egg mentioned above seems to have been the ouly one ever taken by 

 Mr. WoUey himself.] 



^ 2615. 0^^^.— Viksi, West Bothnia, May, 1857. 



Out of four brought on the 17th May by Lassi, of Under Muonio, 

 with the hning of the nest. He said they were found by his brother 

 Johan and another on the south side of Viksi Ryto, about the pre- 

 ceding 12th or 13th. In the eggs were young nearly, but not quite, 

 ready for exclusion. I had difficulty in extracting them. The lining 

 of the nest is mainly the lighter tree-lichens, with many admixtures — 

 a few bents, bark-filaments, macerated leaves like wasps' nests, 

 spiders' nests, feathers (cock and hen Capercally, Kuukainen) — partly 

 interwoven, but in abundance on the inside, reindeer-hair, a little 

 green moss, a bit or two of very light rotten wood, and other things. 



\ 2616. 7^«-o.— Modas-lombola, West Bothnia, May, 1857. - 



Out of three found by Niku Olli, and given to me on the 20th at 

 Modas-lombola, where I blew them. The young inside with visible 

 limbs. The nest is said to have been three fathoms high, in a smallish 

 Scotch fir. The birds, for there were two in company, screeched near 

 Olli as he was coming in the morning from shooting Capercally. 

 One of them almost directly flew to its nest. Olli was not quite sure 

 of the day on which he took them, though he said on the 19th. It 

 was perhaps a day or two sooner. 



[The third e^^ from this nest was sent to M. rarzuilaki, 7 March, 1858.] 



